Trailer Dreams and Open Field Wishes

May 15, 2008 | money sucks,Reds

Like many families these days, ours is lowering expectations and attempting to simplify our life. We’ve had our house on the market for a few months now… and other than proving that people with 3 children under 7 can clean their entire house in under 3 minutes, not much has come of it.

We bought the house when we were both working full-time and had enough to put down on the house our mortgage ended up being pretty reasonable.

Fast forward a couple of years, and things have changed.  I’ve embraced freelance work full-time and have a greater desire and commitment to spend more time with the girls.  We agreed it was a higher priority to live in a smaller house or rent for awhile than for me to go back to work full-time.

But like so many other families, healthcare costs, student loans, and a few poor money-decisions leaves us turning a little pale at each month end.

I can’t help thinking… “I’m almost 40, shouldn’t I be financially secure by now?”

More about the reasons our generation is falling behind our parents, today at Babble…

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